Military Fellowship - Senior Network Engineer

Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We're a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward - and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

The position of Senior Network Engineer - Automation Engineer is responsible for participating in the development of application automation that works with the Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP - OpenStack and Kubernetes). Key responsibilities include:

• Working on a team to develop tools and automation to increase integrated visibility and operations of VCP applications.
• Integrate data from diverse systems via APIs, including both well-documented public APIs and Verizon internal.
• Using VCP, OpenStack, and Git/Source Code Management, as well as best practices.
• Assisting with ingesting vendor-supplied Ansible playbooks, HEAT templates, and other orchestration code and MOPs.
• Leverage enterprise resources, utilizing existing infrastructure where possible and creating integrations where needed.
• Working with Operations teams to run through processes manually and test automation.
• Deployment of automation infrastructure VMs.

Where you'll be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense SkillBridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 1-2023.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Two or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience required, Master's degree a plus.
• Working and Proven Knowledge of Programming or Scripting Skills, especially Python (Experience with Flask web framework, and/or other languages).
• Familiarity with Linux or other UNIX Command line.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies or cloud.
• Knowledge of Source Code and Configuration Management using git.
• Experience working modern configuration management and orchestration tools (Heat, Ansible, Helm, etc)
• A solid balance between both technological and collaboration skills and abilities.
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to an agile and fast evolving environment
• Working knowledge of MS Office and/or G-Suite

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